Honeycomb is a food item in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that can be found as loot or purchased from some merchants.
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While it is possible to find them as random loot a much better source are beehives. Each beehive will yield between 1-4 honeycombs. When Geralt gets too close to a beehive the bees will attempt to sting him and he will start losing health. In order to get the honeycombs the beehive must first be struck with Igni, after which the bees will be gone and the beehive will start burning then fall on the ground and will be safe to loot now. It is also possible to knock a beehive down using Aard, however, that will not allow the honeycombs to be looted and just anger the bees, making their attack range greater.
Note: While all beehives respawn they can only be looted once, so while they can be burned again no more honeycombs will be obtained from them.
There are plenty of beehives in White Orchard alone, by searching the area thoroughly it is possible to find over 100 honeycombs. More can be found in other maps, however, they are more spread out. In the outskirts of Novigrad, Geralt will also start encountering domesticated beehives, that are free to loot and don't need to be burned.
Tips[]
- Honeycombs have an unusually high sell price with herbalists in White Orchard and Velen, who will pay up to 7
per each which is only 1 short of their base price. However, the sell price will drop to 6 after unlocking a discount by siding with the Pellar against the witch hunters during Forefathers' Eve and completing the quest. - It is a good idea to abuse the high sell price as early as possible i.e. before it drops. While herbalists do not have much money, it is possible to use the honeycombs to buy hard to get alchemy ingredients by simply buying them and then selling the honeycombs to get your money back, most notably ones that do not actually grow in the wild.
- If one is simply aiming at earning as much as possible using Honeycombs, then they can simply postpone completing Forefathers' Eve until selling as many as they can find. Good news is the quest has no cutoff point, thus they may only lose some when they eventually turn it in.
Notes[]
- The high pricing is in part intentional, though for unknown reasons, but also accidental to an extent. Tomira in particular has put up posters in White Orchard, advertising that she will buy honeycombs, and there is no doubt that the price is doubled because of that. However, it is very likely that it still shouldn't ever have been as high as it is and is simply the result of White Orchard not having its own area pricing, and inheriting Velen's. Which in turn, fittingly for a poor land struck by famine, doubles the price of all foods.
- There also exists a special honeycomb in the game files, associated with the Shock Therapy quest, that has weaker regeneration stats, but can be dismantled into wax and exquisite honey. It was probably meant to be dropped by the hornet nest used to scare Egill, but for unknown reasons doesn't appear and can only be obtained through console commands (item ID: mq2039_Honeycomb).
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